St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-02
wOMAN'S CRoWNING GLORY.
olive Logan Says american women
Have Good Hair, bat They Do rot
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OitFe Logan says a herican W omen
Have Good Hair, bat They Do Rot
Take Care ORIt.
wandering upon time through the out
Sklrting fields of a small provincial town in
England, | came upon one Of those interest
ing exhibitions of the kind which no doubt
nave been seen in Britain since the middle
! ages. A caravan Of wild beasts in charge
OF family of mOuntebanks had been
brought to halt, and, pcturesquely
| grouped upon the greensward in
front of the temporary stage
| which had been erected the preceding night
were to be seen all the gaping .mouthed
| yokels OF the village, eager to view the
many marvels promised on payment of
| silver SlXpence. Among the wonders |
found an announcement of 1.-The display of
her great natural curiosity. by Miss Sigis-
munda Montmorency, aged &c." | fancled
that the girl might be one of those strange
yocalists whose voices seem compounded
from the masculine and feminine range.
but when the rosycheeked lass appeared il
came out that her great natural curiosity
was her hair, which fell upon the floor and
dragged like a court mantle when he
walked.
There is reaction in favor of hair. For
several years its glOries have been clouded.
but OF late there has been manifest desire
to possess a luXurions crown of capillary
treasure. Biblical eulOgy is not lacking
anent the surprising splendor of women's
hair, while as for that of men. abundant
hair has flom the time of the ancients been
considered the attribute of divinity What
painter, what sculptor OF old has ever repre-
scented Jupiter, Apollo, or Neptune without
glorious quantity of beautiful hair?
I,
Jupiter Olympus was inspired by
Homer, whose pages are full of apostro-
Plies 10 the splendor of the hair of his
heroes. Virgil, to express the power of a
Hydrologic god. said that the shaking OF
his hair caused all Olympus to tremble.
Coming down to modern days. who can
forget the poetic assertion that beauty
draws us by a single hair?
American families in general have fine
hah. 1t grows abundantly, like other veg
etable, under these favorng skies. But
they do not take altogether good care of it.
The hair needs great deal of ventilation.
1t should be brushed and separated BY
wide toothed comb morning and evening.
1t should be allowed to hang down entram-
meled by combs, pins or strings when one
is in dishabille. bnt no married woman
should ever appear i'll company with
olSllSNGlSu Hail. "a lew Years ago
this frantic mode prevailed among
women of poor taste and limited reading.
The flowing hair is tine mark of virgin, in
all pictorial art and is so mentioned by
Horace Wapole in the history of painting,
published more than a hundred years ago.
Queen Victoria will not permit a married
woman whose hair is flying about her
shoulders to approach her presence; but the
little Wales and Edinburgh girls-her grand
children-wear their golden locks unfettered
by the snood.
In spite of the dictum of interested hair
sellers and hairCreSSers nothing is so beau
tiful and becoming to a woman as luXuriant
natural hair, simply twined about the head,
while truant love-lock here and there es-
capes from bondage and falls in curves of
beauty on the brows. OLIVE LOGAN.